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Thursday, July 9, 2009

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This blue print has been married more times than Elizabeth Taylor. It was originally purchased along with pants fabric to make a blouse. For reasons I don't remember, I didn't make the blouse as originally planned. Call it irreconcilable differences. Then, I ordered more pants fabric from an online source but that didn't work out either. What did I expect? The fabrics came from two different worlds and the marriage was destined to fail. The blue fabric did some soul-searching and decided it needed to make some changes and become a skirt. Then, of course, the blouse-turned-skirt fabric needed a different kind of partner for a top. I started by buying a piece of yellow matte jersey on the G-Street field trip. The color was all wrong and that fabric marriage didn't last either. Mixed marriages can be difficult. Finally, I bought this cream colored matte jersey and I'm sure this fabric marriage will last. The cream colored jersey does a much better job of bringing out the light color in the blue print than the yellow from G-Street. And isn't that what a good fabric marriage is supposed to be – two fabrics bringing out the best in each other? All the single ladies, including me, should take inspiration from the blue print fabric. Keep trying – sooner or later, you will find your perfect mate. Or, at the very least, someone you don't mind being seen with!

I love the fabric marriages. Very discriptive. I've had that happen, though it feels more like a sex-change operation in my sewing room. It was born to be a shirt, but realized later that it really was a skirt. I started as a home-dec pillow cover, but after much soul searching, it realized it was really a jacket after all.